Configuration Information

Note that all channels of your sound card are muted by default.
You can use the alsamixer program from the ALSA Utilities to change this. Use
speaker-test to
check that your settings have been applied correctly.

The first time the alsactl program is
run from the udev rule below, it
will complain that there is no state in /etc/asound.state. You can prevent this by
running the following commands as the root user:

touch /etc/asound.state &&
alsactl store

The volume settings will be restored from the saved state by
Udev when the device is detected
(during boot or when plugged in for USB devices).

As the root user, install a new
Udev rules file to create the
audio device nodes and run the restore script: